Captured in Lafayette and Eunice, Louisiana this past week. FYI the sign hangs in T-Coons diner. The owner, of the same name, said that only 1 in 500 people would understand the reference. I would suspect that a much higher percentage of SDA’ers would know it.
We go to South Louisiana every fall for two weeks. The finest of food, people and scenery. We always go to T-coons.
Read Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged two or three times, back in the 1970s, before giving the book to an English high-school teacher in then-communist Romania in 1979. I disagree with her atheism and her ultra-libertarianism, but this would be a good book to read today in these times of liberal-left hegemony.
I like her sentence: “Never complain when someone tells you the truth”.
It’s available as a PDF file on archive.org. I downloaded it and The Fountainhead a few weeks ago and they’re both on my “to read” list.
BA, they are on my re-read list but it is unlikely I will get back to them. Am currently re-reading Robert Bork’s Slouching Towards Gomorrah. Truth is so difficult to find in America these days. of course in Canada it has always been difficult.
Yeah, I know it and I’d bet every commenter here would know as well.
Zydeco cuisine…how good is that???
Don’t peruse the menu if you’re hungry…you’ve been warned.
That picture of deep fried catfish reminded me of my youth … when we stayed at a resort in Clear Lake CA (about the same time John Fogerty was camping at the ‘Green River’ down below). We fished for catfish all day (and night) long, then cleaned them by driving a nail through their head into a board … making cuts behind their head, and pulling their leathery skin off with specialty pliers. No … you clean catfish quite like any other fish. We gave the fillets to the resort cook … and voila! Fried catfish for dinner. But something tells me the Cajun variety is a bit more flavorful.
Sounds great! You’d have to travel a ways to find catfish on the menu where I live.
Who is John Galt?
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Someone had to say it? Right?
Thought I’d get it out of the way early in the thread.
It does call attention to the paradox of affirming your understanding of the sign though.
How is it that a Restaurant named … “Coon” … in the Deep South STILL exists in 2021? Can there be any better example of America’s “systemic racism” … Right? I’m shocked the left hasn’t already run these people out of town.
PS … Lafayette Louisiana is Sister-City to my own little town here in N.CA. We get weekly feeds of Lafayette, LA news … let’s just say we share NOTHING in common with our sister namesake. absolutely NOTHING. Which is fortunate for them
The town/city of Galt CA lies 26 miles south of us. It is indirectly named after this John Galt (from Scotland): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Galt_(novelist)
Technically, our local town was named Galt in reference to Galt Ontario–which was named after the Galt mentioned above. There is no known connection to Ayn Rand’s J.G.–but I think about it every frickin’ time I drive past our Galt.
Have a good weekend, all!
I was too young when I first read Ayn Rand. I loved “The Fountainhead” but couldn’t get into “Atlas Shrugged.” Perhaps I’ll give it another try.
Alas, hubby and I lament we may never be able to travel again. We sure would love to get back to Louisiana. Oh, that menu! Shrimp and okra stew, oh my! Hubby loves my gumbo but the okra we get here is always lousy.
I recall that I had a contact with a fellow radio amateur in Louisiana a number of years ago. Reaching that stations so far south in that direction can be a bit tricky over satellite.
73 de WN1MB
I’m a VA6 in grid square DO33. I’m going to have to get back on the birds, particularly now that we’ve got some decent weather up here.
As I mentioned in today’s tips thread, during much of the 1980s, I used to listen to WRNO out of New Orleans on shortwave, back when Joe Costello ran the station. (I think he was also a ham, but I haven’t found what his callsign was.) I vaguely recall that the transmitter site was in the vicinity of Lake Pontchartrain.
The SW side of WRNO used to carry the feed from the local FM station, which had the same callsign, once in a while, so it was interesting to hear the local programming.
The original WRNO went off the SW bands in the late 1980s or early ’90s. The callsign was acquired by, as far as I know, an evangelical organization and I think the station’s back on the air, but with new owners.
Don’t sweat it….no one wiII know anything about a dude named GaIt, or Ayn Rand after Trudeau takes over the internet and bans anything that isn’t praising him or his party.
But don’t worry Anitfa, NDP’ers, and University facuIties across Canada….you wiII stiII be abIe to study mein Kampf, and the ProtocoIs of the EIders of Zion…..
“Atlas Shrugged” is a fine political polemic but as a novel it’s pretty much unbearable. Cardboard characters there just to instantiate some abstract political opinion, a heroine who’s just too dumb to be likeable, waaay too long.
Waiting for the Liberals to declare “Atlas Shrugged” hate speech and attempt to have it banned.
First read Atlas about 10 years ago in the Obama first term – absolutely floored at how perfectly she described what was occurring politically before my very eyes. I guess the commies/progressives never change…
I have the DVD’s.
Ordered just so I could share with friends and family